Peter McLaughlin
@pmclaughlin44.bsky.social
Political Science PhD student at University of Oklahoma. Carl Albert Center Graduate Fellow.
https://petermcla.com/home
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@pmclaughlin44.bsky.social and I examine public opinion of candidates using campaign funds for childcare. Based on a survey experiment, we argue the policy of allowing parents, particularly mothers, to use campaign funds to pay for childcare may reduce the gender gap in political representation.
📣 Out on #FirstView 📣
In "How do US Voters Respond to Candidates Using Campaign Funds for Childcare?", @matthewgeras.bsky.social and @pmclaughlin44.bsky.social use a framing experiment to assess the politics of parenthood in campaigning in 🇺🇸.
🌟Available #OpenAccess🌟
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In "How do US Voters Respond to Candidates Using Campaign Funds for Childcare?", @matthewgeras.bsky.social and @pmclaughlin44.bsky.social use a framing experiment to assess the politics of parenthood in campaigning in 🇺🇸.
🌟Available #OpenAccess🌟
buff.ly/uDpfP7n
November 18, 2025 at 7:25 PM
@pmclaughlin44.bsky.social and I examine public opinion of candidates using campaign funds for childcare. Based on a survey experiment, we argue the policy of allowing parents, particularly mothers, to use campaign funds to pay for childcare may reduce the gender gap in political representation.
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#OpenAccess from @politicsgenderj.bsky.social -
How Do US Voters Respond to Candidates Using Campaign Funds for Childcare? Evidence From a Framing Experiment - https://cup.org/47N4Fxe
- Matthew J. Geras & @pmclaughlin44.bsky.social
#FirstView
How Do US Voters Respond to Candidates Using Campaign Funds for Childcare? Evidence From a Framing Experiment - https://cup.org/47N4Fxe
- Matthew J. Geras & @pmclaughlin44.bsky.social
#FirstView
November 13, 2025 at 1:21 AM
#OpenAccess from @politicsgenderj.bsky.social -
How Do US Voters Respond to Candidates Using Campaign Funds for Childcare? Evidence From a Framing Experiment - https://cup.org/47N4Fxe
- Matthew J. Geras & @pmclaughlin44.bsky.social
#FirstView
How Do US Voters Respond to Candidates Using Campaign Funds for Childcare? Evidence From a Framing Experiment - https://cup.org/47N4Fxe
- Matthew J. Geras & @pmclaughlin44.bsky.social
#FirstView
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📣 Out on #FirstView 📣
In "How do US Voters Respond to Candidates Using Campaign Funds for Childcare?", @matthewgeras.bsky.social and @pmclaughlin44.bsky.social use a framing experiment to assess the politics of parenthood in campaigning in 🇺🇸.
🌟Available #OpenAccess🌟
buff.ly/uDpfP7n
In "How do US Voters Respond to Candidates Using Campaign Funds for Childcare?", @matthewgeras.bsky.social and @pmclaughlin44.bsky.social use a framing experiment to assess the politics of parenthood in campaigning in 🇺🇸.
🌟Available #OpenAccess🌟
buff.ly/uDpfP7n
November 13, 2025 at 2:00 PM
📣 Out on #FirstView 📣
In "How do US Voters Respond to Candidates Using Campaign Funds for Childcare?", @matthewgeras.bsky.social and @pmclaughlin44.bsky.social use a framing experiment to assess the politics of parenthood in campaigning in 🇺🇸.
🌟Available #OpenAccess🌟
buff.ly/uDpfP7n
In "How do US Voters Respond to Candidates Using Campaign Funds for Childcare?", @matthewgeras.bsky.social and @pmclaughlin44.bsky.social use a framing experiment to assess the politics of parenthood in campaigning in 🇺🇸.
🌟Available #OpenAccess🌟
buff.ly/uDpfP7n
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Political inexperience in Congress has measurable effects on legislative outcomes. Our research finds that when districts elect political newcomers over career politicians, congressional dysfunction tends to increase.
New explainer of our PNAS study:
theconversation.com/amateur-hour...
New explainer of our PNAS study:
theconversation.com/amateur-hour...
Amateur hour in Congress: How political newcomers fuel gridlock and government shutdowns
The public’s frustration with ‘politics as usual’ has led more political newcomers to win office. But amateurs are more likely to view bipartisanship as a concession, not a tool for advancing policy.
theconversation.com
November 3, 2025 at 1:45 PM
Political inexperience in Congress has measurable effects on legislative outcomes. Our research finds that when districts elect political newcomers over career politicians, congressional dysfunction tends to increase.
New explainer of our PNAS study:
theconversation.com/amateur-hour...
New explainer of our PNAS study:
theconversation.com/amateur-hour...
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Federal spending is *up* under Trump according to the Wall Street Journal. Chaos is not actually the same as cost savings.
Actual budgeting is a kind of actual policy-making and takes real work spread over real time. Running around breaking stuff isn't that.
www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
Actual budgeting is a kind of actual policy-making and takes real work spread over real time. Running around breaking stuff isn't that.
www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
April 11, 2025 at 10:43 AM
Federal spending is *up* under Trump according to the Wall Street Journal. Chaos is not actually the same as cost savings.
Actual budgeting is a kind of actual policy-making and takes real work spread over real time. Running around breaking stuff isn't that.
www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
Actual budgeting is a kind of actual policy-making and takes real work spread over real time. Running around breaking stuff isn't that.
www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
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Yay!! I just submitted the complete manuscript of my upcoming book to the publisher!
Learn to easily and clearly interpret (almost) any stats model w/ R or Python. Simple ideas, consistent workflow, powerful tools, detailed case studies.
Read it for free @ marginaleffects.com
#RStats #PyData
Yay!! I just submitted the complete manuscript of my upcoming book to the publisher!
Learn to easily and clearly interpret (almost) any stats model w/ R or Python. Simple ideas, consistent workflow, powerful tools, detailed case studies.
Read it for free @ marginaleffects.com
#RStats #PyData
April 10, 2025 at 7:06 PM
📚😅🎉
Yay!! I just submitted the complete manuscript of my upcoming book to the publisher!
Learn to easily and clearly interpret (almost) any stats model w/ R or Python. Simple ideas, consistent workflow, powerful tools, detailed case studies.
Read it for free @ marginaleffects.com
#RStats #PyData
Yay!! I just submitted the complete manuscript of my upcoming book to the publisher!
Learn to easily and clearly interpret (almost) any stats model w/ R or Python. Simple ideas, consistent workflow, powerful tools, detailed case studies.
Read it for free @ marginaleffects.com
#RStats #PyData
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Authoritarians struggle to make effective policy in part because they have a bottleneck of attention. If no one but the king can make decisions, every decision must wait in line. Meanwhile, things get missed and errors accumulate.
‘We are all waiting for a reply.’ Countries say White House hasn’t responded on tariff talks.
The lack of engagement is one signal the White House is still far from reaching substantive trade deals ahead of the midnight deadline for stepped-up global tariffs to kick in.
www.politico.com
April 8, 2025 at 11:43 PM
Authoritarians struggle to make effective policy in part because they have a bottleneck of attention. If no one but the king can make decisions, every decision must wait in line. Meanwhile, things get missed and errors accumulate.
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This is a fantastic list of papers on properly dealing with control variables (and other related methodological issues) in social science (and #polisky specifically)! I put it all in a public Zotero group library here www.zotero.org/groups/59433...
April 7, 2025 at 7:55 PM
This is a fantastic list of papers on properly dealing with control variables (and other related methodological issues) in social science (and #polisky specifically)! I put it all in a public Zotero group library here www.zotero.org/groups/59433...
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Really cool datasets and accompanying papers
The National Elections Database www.nationalelectionsdatabase.com
Paper: academic.oup.com/restud/advan...
Digitally Accountable Public Representation (social media posts of US officeholders 2020-2024)
sites.psu.edu/dapr/
Paper: osf.io/preprints/os...
The National Elections Database www.nationalelectionsdatabase.com
Paper: academic.oup.com/restud/advan...
Digitally Accountable Public Representation (social media posts of US officeholders 2020-2024)
sites.psu.edu/dapr/
Paper: osf.io/preprints/os...
March 30, 2025 at 5:44 PM
Really cool datasets and accompanying papers
The National Elections Database www.nationalelectionsdatabase.com
Paper: academic.oup.com/restud/advan...
Digitally Accountable Public Representation (social media posts of US officeholders 2020-2024)
sites.psu.edu/dapr/
Paper: osf.io/preprints/os...
The National Elections Database www.nationalelectionsdatabase.com
Paper: academic.oup.com/restud/advan...
Digitally Accountable Public Representation (social media posts of US officeholders 2020-2024)
sites.psu.edu/dapr/
Paper: osf.io/preprints/os...
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NEW: Friends of Neri Alvarado, rotting in a Salvadoran prison on Trump's orders, made a video highlighting his volunteer work helping neurodiverse children learn to swim. Neri was sent there after someone at ICE thought his autism awareness tattoo was a gang tattoo.
Vid posted by Noah Lanard on X.
Vid posted by Noah Lanard on X.
March 28, 2025 at 7:23 PM
NEW: Friends of Neri Alvarado, rotting in a Salvadoran prison on Trump's orders, made a video highlighting his volunteer work helping neurodiverse children learn to swim. Neri was sent there after someone at ICE thought his autism awareness tattoo was a gang tattoo.
Vid posted by Noah Lanard on X.
Vid posted by Noah Lanard on X.
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2/🧵 Here is the breakdown by ideological groupings. While liberal judges heard more cases (due to geography and venue selection), the consistency of rulings across ideological lines demolishes the narrative that judicial decisions against Trump reflect political bias.
March 18, 2025 at 9:32 PM
2/🧵 Here is the breakdown by ideological groupings. While liberal judges heard more cases (due to geography and venue selection), the consistency of rulings across ideological lines demolishes the narrative that judicial decisions against Trump reflect political bias.
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Mandatory high school civics class that isn’t just like “how a bill becomes law” or whatever but also “how NOAA powers your phone’s weather app” and “NIH helped make your asthma inhaler”
March 8, 2025 at 12:03 PM
Mandatory high school civics class that isn’t just like “how a bill becomes law” or whatever but also “how NOAA powers your phone’s weather app” and “NIH helped make your asthma inhaler”
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The average American voter thinks that the government is too big but that it should spend more money on everything it does. This explains a decent share of the political chaos of this country.
March 2, 2025 at 7:48 PM
The average American voter thinks that the government is too big but that it should spend more money on everything it does. This explains a decent share of the political chaos of this country.
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can't be stressed enough how stuff like this makes policymaking so much more difficult in the future. think you passed a bill appropriating funds over ten years? maybe you did, maybe you didn't!
USAID cancels large contracts of Georgia peanut butter supplier www.ajc.com/news/georgia...
USAID cancels large contracts of Georgia peanut butter supplier
Mana, which produces peanut-butter based food pouches in Georgia, said USAID had terminated $12 million of its contracts to feed malnourished children in Africa.
www.ajc.com
February 28, 2025 at 4:48 PM
can't be stressed enough how stuff like this makes policymaking so much more difficult in the future. think you passed a bill appropriating funds over ten years? maybe you did, maybe you didn't!
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I can't speak for others, but I used to be like this. One thing that the 6+ year grind to earn a PhD and develop real expertise on a subject gave me was a respect for others doing the hard work to develop domain-specific expertise.
A good general epistemic rule of thumb: If you have spent a few hours or weeks studying an area large numbers of smart, educated people have worked in for decades, and you believe you have discoverer an earthshattering truth they all missed, your default should be to regard this as VERY unlikely.
Elon Musk is an idiot on an almost inconceivable scale. He had his high-school toadies pull a random list from a database he doesn’t understand, and on that basis alone decided that 60 MILLION SOCIAL SECURITY ENROLLEES, out of 72 million total, are fraudulent. 83% fraudulent!
February 17, 2025 at 5:12 PM
I can't speak for others, but I used to be like this. One thing that the 6+ year grind to earn a PhD and develop real expertise on a subject gave me was a respect for others doing the hard work to develop domain-specific expertise.
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From our new issue: "The Distributive Politics of Grants-in-Aid" by Leah Rosenstiel. #ASPRNewIssue https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/american-political-science-review/article/distributive-politics-of-grantsinaid/222CF971123CED4D22ACDF2033D37E9A
February 6, 2025 at 4:00 PM
From our new issue: "The Distributive Politics of Grants-in-Aid" by Leah Rosenstiel. #ASPRNewIssue https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/american-political-science-review/article/distributive-politics-of-grantsinaid/222CF971123CED4D22ACDF2033D37E9A
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A great @psjeditor.bsky.social paper from Lewallen, Park and @seanmtheriault.bsky.social examines when members of Congress use hearings to grandstand.
They find more grandstanding in solution (legislating) oriented hearings, with variation across topics.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...
They find more grandstanding in solution (legislating) oriented hearings, with variation across topics.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...
January 23, 2025 at 5:29 PM
A great @psjeditor.bsky.social paper from Lewallen, Park and @seanmtheriault.bsky.social examines when members of Congress use hearings to grandstand.
They find more grandstanding in solution (legislating) oriented hearings, with variation across topics.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...
They find more grandstanding in solution (legislating) oriented hearings, with variation across topics.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...
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New CongressData update with its r packages & web app:
cspp.ippsr.msu.edu/congress/
We now have 1,000 variables at the district-member-year level, including 9 new data sources with area crosswalks, activist presence, primaries, environmental data, broadband, & legislative style
cspp.ippsr.msu.edu/congress/
We now have 1,000 variables at the district-member-year level, including 9 new data sources with area crosswalks, activist presence, primaries, environmental data, broadband, & legislative style
CongressData
The CongressData Project aims to compile, disseminate, and encourage the use of data relevant to research of the US Congress and tracks member-level variables across the states across time. We have gathered more than 900 variables from various sources and assembled them into one large, useful dataset. We hope this project will become a 'one-stop shop' for academics, policy analysts, students, and researchers looking for variables germane to the study of the US Congress.
cspp.ippsr.msu.edu
December 17, 2024 at 5:15 PM
New CongressData update with its r packages & web app:
cspp.ippsr.msu.edu/congress/
We now have 1,000 variables at the district-member-year level, including 9 new data sources with area crosswalks, activist presence, primaries, environmental data, broadband, & legislative style
cspp.ippsr.msu.edu/congress/
We now have 1,000 variables at the district-member-year level, including 9 new data sources with area crosswalks, activist presence, primaries, environmental data, broadband, & legislative style
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🏅In one of our most read articles this week - "More Money, Less Credit?" - @pmclaughlin44.bsky.social utilizes survey experiments to investigate potential gender bias in congressional credit claiming.
Available 🌟 #OpenAccess 🌟
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Available 🌟 #OpenAccess 🌟
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
November 22, 2024 at 7:26 PM
🏅In one of our most read articles this week - "More Money, Less Credit?" - @pmclaughlin44.bsky.social utilizes survey experiments to investigate potential gender bias in congressional credit claiming.
Available 🌟 #OpenAccess 🌟
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Available 🌟 #OpenAccess 🌟
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...